Acid reflux: Normally, stomach acids remain in the stomach where the lining is well protected from damage by cels that produce mucin. The esophagus has less protection than the stomach and if acids leave the stomach frequently, the esophagus can be damaged. Acid exposure to damagesd tissues can cause pain (heart burn). Even though this sounds like reflux, a docctor's evaluation is suggested to confirm this. ...Read more.
This means that the floor of the Atlantic Ocean basin has a big 'rip' in the middle where magma is spewing out and forming new oceanic crust and thus forcing Africa and South America away from each other.This has been happening since the Jurassic period, some 200 million years ago!Source(s): geology degree.ell, one side of each continent (the atlantic ocean side) is moving away from the other continent, but since the earth is round, this means that the other sides must be moving toward each other, unless the world is growing, and it doesn,t appear to be, so..... busterwasmycat Â· 5 years ago.
When this landmass started to split, gashes in Earth's crust called rifts opened up along pre-existing weaknesses. One of these gashes, called the West Africa Rift System, started to tear apart the future Sahara desert. Two more rifts formed along the future boundaries of South America and Africa.Imagine three rift zones, two lined up essentially north-south and one pointing east-west. These alignments are key to explaining why the continents broke apart the way they did, according to a study published March 6 in the journal Geology.he mantle is the hotter layer of rock beneath Earth's crust. The crust often breaks apart at three-pronged junctions, such as the triple rift that formed between Africa-South America, and it's not uncommon for one rift to fail to develop.